This attitude is not openly chal-lensed here; it is simply ignored. As the writer has already pointed out in a report of a conversation with Marshal Chany Hsueh-liang And in subsequent articles, the whole administration here to have _peact establish some degree of unity with China proper, but just as determin. ed to maintain a sufficient degree of autonomy, if need be, ty keep out undoubtedly felt in king, so that it is generally conceded about the town that, from Nanking's point of view at least, the development of a complete rapprochement fs disappointingly slow. When one Asks now when the Nationalist flag' will go up, they ion is clearly defined" and then grin, "If they adhere to that, and to their own present definition of their position", said the most astute Japanese observer in Mukden when it was quoted to him, "it means. never." And yet, it cannot be too strongly emphasized, they are almost passionately determined here that there shall be no open breach with Nanking or any Nationalist force in Chibi, and that there shall be some degree of federation with China proper that will ive at least the appearance of unity and eo-operation,
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